The QH-50 Multi-Purpose Vehicle

Probably the most widely used Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in the history of man, was the QH-50 Drone Helicopter. The Navy used it to fly anti-submarine warfare missions carrying 1000-lbs worth of torpedoes from over 165 U.S. Naval ships and then they change the mission for some - exchanging the payload weight for more fuel for reconnaissance missions over Vietnam - gun-spotting in real-time for off-shore-destroyers. The USAF used the aircraft as a mini-AWACs platform as a pop-up telemetry transmitter / relay st